Corporate Sailing - Team Building

Our Sunsail corporate team building programmes are tailored to the precise requirements of your business and are designed to facilitate the transfer of team building skills and tactics learned on the water back to the office.

Sunsail offers one day or overnight corporate programmes. The overnight option includes dinner in the relaxed environment of the Portsmouth Harbour Yacht Club with a motivational speaker selected with the needs of your company in mind. Guests then sleep aboard their yacht before embarking on an exciting and challenging day at sea.

The sailing element is the same whether the overnight package is taken or not. The teams will work on building high performance through the balancing of task, team and individual.

A racing module will focus everyone’s attention on matters of planning, delegation and motivation, while fun cruising gives everyone an opportunity to put their new found skills into practice.

A Sunsail team building programme includes a review of individual and team performance to show how the lessons learned at sea can be implemented at work.

One Day Programme

0830 hrs Arrive at Port Solent for tea, coffee and bacon rolls in Portsmouth Harbour Yacht Club overlooking Port Solent marina.
0900 hrs Guests will be greeted by a Sunsail representative and introduced to your facilitators and Sunsail skippers.
Discuss expectations and concerns.
0930 hrs Commence Module One: performance challenge – building high performance teams.
1030 hrs Stow kit onboard yachts.
Safety Brief and yacht familiarisation.
Depart for morning sail in the Solent.
1130 hrs Module Two: action centred leadership – the need to balance task, team and individual.
1200 hrs Anchor off Isle of Wight shore for a packed lunch and soft drinks onboard yachts
1230 hrs Pre race practice involving discussion of roles and responsibilities required when sailing the yacht.
1330 hrs Performance challenge – race around the Solent focusing on drivers such as planning, delegation and motivation.
or Fun cruising, everyone has the opportunity to get involved in the fundamentals of sailing.
Sunsail skipper will ensure you are safe and then it can be over to you.
Crews can put to the test their newly acquired skills
1500 hrs Review of individual and team performance and how this can be translated to the workplace.
1600 hrs Return to marina for team ‘show you know’ presenting examples and experiences of the day.
1630 hrs Return the boat to Port Solent and hand over yachts.
1700 hrs Afternoon tea and cake served in Portsmouth Harbour Yacht Club with final scores and prize-giving.

Please note that timings are approximate and dependant on weather conditions

Programme designed to suit your teams specific needs, includes one pre-event meeting to set objectives, facilitation for the day of the event.
Hire of one of our identically matched fleet of Sunfast 37, Sunsail skipper and wet weather gear
Tea, coffee and bacon rolls on arrival in the Portsmouth Harbour Yacht Club
Two course buffet lunch onboard
Soft drinks pack comprising of tea, coffee, water, cola, lemonade and orange juice
Tea and cake reception on return to Portsmouth Harbour Yacht Club